Top 20 US Websites for June 2008

Written on July 21, 2008 – 4:15 pm | by Wordpreneur |

Just thought you’d find this information interesting, useful, or at the very least, curious.

HitWise is a company that monitors and measures Internet activity anonymously through ISPs. Good way to estimate market share. For its measurements, it takes a sample of users (in this case, 10 million Internet users) and then counts how many of them visit its database of over 1 milliion unique websites (including subdomains). For June 2008, here’s what Hitwise reports:

www.google.com (5.92% share)
www.myspace.com (5.05%)
mail.yahoo.com (5.00%)
www.yahoo.com (4.09%)
mail.live.com (2.44%)
www.ebay.com (1.73%)
search.yahoo.com (1.62%)
www.msn.com (1.24%)
www.facebook.com (1.19%)
www.youtube.com (0.89%)
www.gmail.com (0.69%)
images.google.com (0.55%)
www.wikipedia.org (0.47%)
mail.aol.com (0.42%)
search.msn.com (0.42%)
address.yahoo.com (0.38%)
www.pogo.com (0.37%)
www.craigslist.org (0.36%)
my.yahoo.com (0.35%)
www.aol.com (0.34%)

Interesting to speculate what this top ”mix” of popular sites tells us about the US Web population. Hmm. I’m actually a bit surprised that MySpace is ranked so high — I’m not a big fan, but I guess I’m just showing my age.

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